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Category: Psychology

  • Engaging with an Unreceptive (or Hostile) Audience

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    CAVEAT: This is geared less toward sales and more toward partnerships. Often, we are required to develop partnerships with organizations and people who are less than receptive to our message. Even if we are passionate about what we are doing, we sometimes are unable to convince people to partner with us. As part of my community…

  • A Simple But Powerful Tool: Thank You Cards

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    Within the past month, we have been interviewing applicants for a senior recruiter position. As part of human resources, I have panel interviewed applicants. Earlier this week, we came to a decision. The decision was between two very qualified individuals. Both had great skillsets, interviewed well, and would fit the chemistry of our office. I…

  • Cultural Competency Defined

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    Last Saturday, I had the privilege of facilitating a group on the topic of cultural competency. The group of about 50 people were completing the training in order to be qualified to volunteer at Kansas City, Missouri-area elementary schools. This training was developed to provide people with the opportunity to be open and vulnerable to…

  • Human attraction: What spinal curvature can tell us about potential mates

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    One of the subs I follow on Reddit had a link to a 2015 study in Evolution and Human Behavior on lumbar curvature. The study results suggested males found females attractive due to their spinal curvature, because it indicated a greater ability to bear children. That’s interesting, eh? In the past several decades, a new…

  • Tweet this: Extremists continue utilizing social media

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    The Parkland, Florida, high school shooting yesterday once again underscores the continual need to prevent these incidents.  Prevention strategies tend to follow along the same path of hardening these soft targets: Metal detectors or increased/more visible security measures.  The main counterbalance to these strategies is, of course, money. While news regarding this shooting continues to develop, sources…